Girl, six, and parents shot over stray basketball, says neighbour

Kinsley White, six, shows reporters a wound on her face in Gastonia, North Carolina (Kara Fohner/The Gaston Gazette via AP)

A man in North Carolina shot and wounded a six-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his garden, according to neighbours and the girl’s family.

It is the latest in a string of recent shootings in the US sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances.